Fees, again

[Rich]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

Hi men, hope everyone is having a good summer.

I was working a Summer wood bat league, some college, a couple of ex-professional people, and some older former college players. My partner did not show up for some reason, so I had 2 7's by myself.

Two pretty good games, with probably one screw-up on a base call by me.

My question: In your area what is the pay for this DH if you worked it?

Well, I see both sides of this. The teams would've had to pay 2 umpires a certain amount (let's say $100 to make the math easier) which means they would normally pay out $200.

But they didn't get 2 umpires. The teams would rightly say: This should only cost us $100 - we only got one umpire.

The umpire thinks: I had to make all the calls, I should get $200.

The assignor probably should fine the second guy whatever he wants ($50 or $100) and pay that money to the first guy and give $100 back to the teams.